Signups for the #covercrops cost-share program Farmers for Soil Health opened last month. At last month's #FarmProgressShow, I visited with #LafayetteCo #Missouri's Neal Bredehoeft, a farmer-director with the United #Soybean Board who hosted #USDA on his farm last year to promote the #ClimateSmart grant that is funding this effort.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/lafayette-county-farmer-offers-advice-on-adopting-cover-crops/

Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

https://thefern.org/2023/07/can-bidens-climate-smart-agriculture-program-live-up-to-the-hype/

(Silvia Secchi says it's greenwash, and she's usually right.)

#climate #farming #agriculture #ClimateSmart

From #OrphanOilWells to #ToxicTailingsLeaks, #AlbertaEnergyRegulator is under much needed scrutiny these days. The phrase #CapturedByIndustry is gaining steam. How do we ensure same thing doesn't happen with #LithiumMining? Or ANY of the #ClimateSmart solutions?

We'll ask Canadian tech writer #ParisMark these questions and more on the next #ClimateOfChange, I hope you'll join us.

RSVP: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/acoc_5_2_paris_marx

#abpoli #Climate #Renewables #Storage #Electrification #ClimateChange #NetZero

It's fair to say climate folk are somewhat divided on the role #ElectricVehicles will play in humankind's transition to a #ZeroEmission #ClimateSmart world. ACOC host Bentley is going to dig into it with Canadians tech writer and '#TechWontSaveUs' podcast host #ParisMarx on the next show!

#ElectricCars #Tesla #Climate #ClimateChange #NetZero #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #Urbanism #WarOnCars #CityBuilding #NetZero #Alberta

RSVP: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/acoc_5_2_paris_marx

#Pakistan: Stated reasons by #wheat farmers for limited adoption of #climatesmart farming practices for greater #foodsecurity were lack of knowledge/skills, lack of modern technologies, economic constraints, politics, and social influences: https://doi.org/10.4081/ija.2022.2129 #climatechange

@brianpjcronin very interesting. Nice to see the checklists. Really wondered what it meant after seeing communities that were examples of suburban sprawl earn the #ClimateSmart title.

Join us for our HRD Research Seminar Series (online) on December 7th, 15.00 (GMT)

Professor Marcus Taylor (Queen's University, Canada)

What’s smart about climate-smart agriculture? Case studies and transformative proposals from rural India

Since the early 2010s, numerous international organisations have argued that a fundamental transformation of the global food system is long overdue. To better achieve key social and environmental outcomes, the argument runs, governments, NGOs and farmers themselves need to embrace the tools of climate-smart agriculture: that is, techniques that achieve the ‘triple win’ of greater productivity, enhanced resilience and lowered emissions. While this sounds good in theory, what does climate-smart agriculture mean in practice?

BOOK HERE: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/hrd-climate-smart-agriculture-in-rural-india/

#digitalagriculture #resilience #financialisation #climatesmart #ClimateAdaptation #smartagriculture #digitalisation

At #cop27 today. Find me in the #OceanPavillion from about now, talking about #climatechange #climatesmart #MPAs and #ocean #NatureBasedSolutions at 3PM high level event.